RecentNews TAKE MY WEB SURVEY As part of my doctoral degree I am conducting a survey of composers. I would love your participation - click here to read more and participate. >> "Sette Momenti" commissioned by Le Ville Matte, will be premiered on July 24th 2010 at 9pm in Teulada, Italy. >> "Glass Blue Cleft" recorded by the Escher String Quartet, is now available on Bridge Records>>

Max Giteck Duykers is a composer whose work is dedicated to unusual beauty.  His music has been performed throughout the United States, in Italy, and Romania.  He has received commissions from or composed for numerous performers and presenting organizations, notably The Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra>>, the Oakland Youth Orchestra>>, HERE Arts Center>>, PS122>>, La Mama ETC>>, and the Stony Brook Department of Theatre Arts>>. Other premieres include performances by The Seattle Chamber Players>>, Anti-Social Music>>, Trio Tara>>, and The Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players>>. 

Duykers has just been selected for the Le Ville Matte>> music residency in Sardinia, Italy for the summer of 2010, and Duykers’ music was featured at three recent music festivals: Music08>> at the University of Cincinnati, soundSCAPE>> at the Vittadini School of Music in Pavia, Italy, and the Seattle Chamber Players’ Icebreaker IV>>, curated by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross>>.  His sextet Twilight For Adored and Breathless Moments was called “full of surprises” by The Seattle Weekly>>, and a “gem…beautiful…an absolute pleasure to hear” by artdish.com>>.   Duykers’ Glass Blue Cleft was recently recorded by the Escher String Quartet>> and was released on Bridge Records>> in April 2010 (Bridge 9318).  Current projects include The Apricots of Andujar (working title), an opera to be composed for his father, tenor John Duykers>> and 5 other singers, plus pierrot sextet.  The piece is being developed with acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Philip Gotanda>>.

Duykers has also received commissions to compose music for over 35 theatrical, dance, film, and multimedia projects in the New York City area, and he is currently the composer-in-residence at the newly formed Center for Dance, Movement and Somatic Learning>> at Stony Brook University.  With the theatre group Prototype>> he was an artist-in-residence at HERE Arts Center>> in 2002-2004, and in 2000-2001 he worked for Philip Glass’ The Looking Glass Studios>> and Dunvagen Music Publishers>>, where he did studio recording, Pro-Tools post-production, music sequencing, music copying and music editing for the Philip Glass Ensemble>>, film scoring projects, and operatic works.  He holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory>> where he studied composition with Randy Coleman>>, and he is currently a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University where he studies with Sheila Silver>>. At Stony Brook he has also taught music theory, musicianship and private composition to music majors.  He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Rebecca and son Quinlan>>.

Check out the Listen>> page for samples and the News>> page for updates and current performances.